A meeting was held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan to establish a Roll Back Malaria partnership in the central Asian republics and Kazakhstan. The representatives of malaria surveillance and control programmes in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan and representatives of about 30 United Nations organizations, institutions, embassies, international banks, nongovernmental organizations and foundations were present. The meeting reviewed the regional and country malaria epidemiological situation and discussed the objectives and ...

The central Asian republics information network (‎CARINFONET)‎ was developed with the support of the WHO Regional Office for Europe and its Information Centre on Health for the Central Asian Republics and Kazakhstan in Bishkek. CARINFONET enables the exchange of experience among and the development and use of common standards by experts from these countries who are responsible for collecting, processing and disseminating health data and statistics. The participants at the Sixth Meeting concluded that the computerization of health care facilities ...

A number of missions were carried by WHO during 1995 in the central Asian republics (‎CAR)‎ to investigate the status of staffing and training in environmental health services in these countries. As a follow-up to these missions, a workshop on staffing, professional education and training needs in environmental health services for the CAR was held in Bishkek (‎29 November-1 December 1995)‎. This workshop explored issues relating to the development of environmental health services on which the CAR could collaborate on professional education, research ...